One mum's fight to get wheelchairs on planes

[Will]

Airplane seats are heavily bolted into the frame. Some straps connected to a wheel chair arent gonna cut it. I get that it sucks but I dont see a reasonable solution in sight.

Of course straps can work fine. You totally underestimate how strong a strap can be made and how well it can secure something down. If turbulence is to the point where a reinforced strap gets snapped then the plane's probably fucked anyway. We're talking nice firm, chunky straps well anchored to a fixed point that wrap around solid parts of the wheelchair. We're not talking zip ties found in uncle Frank's garage on the bottom shelf.

Now, if the strap is fastened around a sharp edge of the chair, that's a problem, but a strap can be affixed to various points around a chair, and if a chair is, for whatever reason, outright incompatible with the system, will then shit happens and that dude can't fly, which is no different to had they disallowed wheelchairs in the first place. Something is better than nothing, right?

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So even more special privileges for the handicapped. They already get the best parking spaces, special deluxe bathroom stalls with lots of space in public bathrooms, free access to National Parks, free metered parking, Front of the line access to all rides in amusement parks, and lots of discounts, and now you want them to have the only seats on the plane with some legroom and first to leave the plane too while everyone else waits a half hour for the people in front to get out?

Lol, you're salty about all those privileges? Dude, you don't realise how privileged you are (if you're not disabled). Pretty sure people out there with no freaking legs would think you're the lucky one. If I seriously ask you now, would you willingly have your legs made useless or removed to gain those benefits, would you say yes? If not, then shut up

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Look at my updated message, and yes I am, fucking look at the size of the solo seat, and compare it to the god damned double seat next to it. This is round peg round hole square peg square hole intellect level shit.

Well I checked out your picture and I saw 2 seats. One regular sized seat, and one double-sized seat that could seat 2 people (or 1 large person). A large seat that can sit 2 is still technically one seat, just a... big seat. (But this has derailed into semantics and I'm not helping either!)

[Freighter]

Lol, you're salty about all those privileges? Dude, you don't realise how privileged you are (if you're not disabled). Pretty sure people out there with no freaking legs would think you're the lucky one. If I seriously ask you now, would you willingly have your legs made useless or removed to gain those benefits, would you say yes? If not, then shut up

You're not privileged by not being disabled.

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Ummm, adam, use an external (texas) catheter + bag. Or is there some reason you can't? The ones I use I don't even notice I have on (except when I have to use it, obviously).

Because I don't need to

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Then you need to get your eyes checked. One of those “two normal seats” is only a single “normal” seat for someone who weighs in excess of 28 stone. Especially as it’s twice the size of the other “normal” seat.

I'm not arguing semantics I use trains and I know exactly the size and it's two normal seats. Now do you mind not derailing with irrelevant shit

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Twice the room = twice the price.

That's the only way you will get them to adapt a plane for it.

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Twice the room = twice the price.

That's the only way you will get them to adapt a plane for it.

It will have to be more then that im afraid, you take up at least 3 seats then you have to calculate how often these special seats are not used and add that to the price as well.

[ghotihook]

Welcome to what non-disabled people experience on planes.

Haha, no kidding. The seats are ridiculous.
I am not large by any means 5'9" and 200lbs (175cm and 90kg) and I am incredibly uncomfortable in plane seats. I cannot imagine being big or tall. I never fly in standard seats anymore. I get exit row, comfort+ or business class as long as the flight is more than a couple hours. It truly is a miserable experience.

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Got it, you’re lying willfully.

Got it you're just being a cunt

[Nellise]

Because I don't need to

If you're pulling your dick out in public (like you suggested you'd do), you need to.

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If you're pulling your dick out in public (like you suggested you'd do), you need to.

I didn't suggest I did, I said I didn't need to pee at all during my flight

[Daethz]

Woulden't they literally have to completely redesign all aircraft from the ground up to accomplish this?
Anyway throw in Mach 1.0+ travel and I agree!